Harvard String Theory Seminars - Spring 2008

Thursdays at 4:00 in Jefferson 453

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Date Speaker
Title
Notes
1/31
Hong Liu (MIT)
The Viscosity bound and string swampland
2/7
Mina Aganagic (Berkeley)
Geometric Transitions and Supersymmetry Breaking

2/14
Nathan Berkovits (Sao Paulo)
Gauged Linear Sigma Model for the AdS_5xS5 Superstring
2/21
Volker Braun (UPenn)
The Laplace Operator on Calabi-Yau Threefolds
2/28
David Mateos  (Santa Barbara)
RHIC Physics and String Theory: The Fundamental Story
3/6
Sean Hartnoll (KITP)
Black holes and quantum criticality
3/13
Sergei Gukov (UCSB)
D-branes and Representations
3/20
No seminar

3/27
No seminar 
4/3
Mark Van Raamsdonk (UBC)
Black hole dynamics from atmospheric science

4/10
Amit Sever (Brandeis)
Partons scattering amplitudes at strong coupling

4/17
Kentaro Hori (Toronto)
Phases of N=2 theories in 1+1 dimensions with boundary
4/24
Gerard 't Hooft (Utrecht)
Quantum Mechanics and Determinism
5/1
Neil Lambert (King's College)
Modeling Multiple M2’s